Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack

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Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack
Soundtrack by Nellee Hooper
Released	1996

The soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet were composed of two discs, first containing the music inspired by the film and the second containing the actual score to the film composed by Nellee Hooper. The two disc feature soundtrack has been hailed as a flamboyant success as a motion picture film score. Composer Nellee Hooper was awarded BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Music for his composition of the soundtrack in 1998.

[edit] Disc 1

1. #1 Crush Garbage
2. Local God Everclear
3. Angel Gavin Friday
4. Pretty Piece of Flesh One Inch Punch
5. Kissing You Des'ree
6. Whatever (I Had a Dream) Butthole Surfers
7. Lovefool The Cardigans
8. Young Hearts Run Free Kym Mazelle
9. Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) Quindon Tarver
10. To You I Bestow Mundy
11. Talk Show Host Radiohead
12. Little Star Stina Nordenstam
13. You And Me Song The Wannadies

[edit] Disc 2

The soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet was composed by British music producer Nellee Hooper, Scottish composer Craig Armstrong, and English music composer and producer Marius van Wyk de Vries. It was arranged, orchestrated, and conducted by Craig Armstrong using the London Session Orchestra and The Metro Voices.

The soundtrack fuses bombastic choral sequences produced by The Metro Voices as well as flamboyant orchestral pieces by the London Session Orchestra. It also contains Nellee Hooper's favorite trip-hop sequences, especially seen in the track Introduction to Romeo. Some high-beat techno tunes were fused with the chorus and orchestra in the track Escape from Mantua.

Dialogues were also inserted into several of the tracks. Justin Warfield of One Inch Punch as well as Quindon Tarver and Butthole Surfers reprise their roles as performers from the first disc to take part in the second disc.

Craig Armstrong's Film Works 1995-2005 solo disc work contained several of these tracks.

1. Prologue
2. O Verona
3. The Montague Boys (Featuring Justin Warfield of One Inch Punch)
4. Gas Station Scene
5. O Verona (Reprise)
6. Introduction to Romeo
7. Queen Mab Interlude
8. Young Hearts Run Free (Ballroom Version (Featuring Kym Mazelle, Harold Perrineau, & Paul Sorvino)
9. Kissing You (Love Theme from Romeo + Juliet)
10. Balcony Scene
11. When Dove's Cry (Featuring Quindon Tarver)
12. A Challenge
13. Tybalt Arrives (Featuring Butthole Surfers & The Dust Brothers)
14. Fight Scene
15. Mercutio's Death
16. Drive of Death
17. Slow Movement (Composed by Craig Armstrong)
18. Morning Breaks
19. Juliet's Requiem
20. Mantua
21. Escape from Mantua (Featuring Mundy)
22. Death Scene
23. Liebestod (From Richard Wagner's Tristan & Isolde)
24. Epilogue